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Microsoft Plans Hypervisor for Longhorn

ninjee writes "Microsoft reiterated plans to launch its own Windows-based 'hypervisor' software for running multiple operating systems. Bob Muglia, senior vice president in the Windows Server Division, said on Tuesday that the software will be 'built directly in Windows and will allow companies to virtualize multiple operating systems.' "

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  1. Virtua(wha) by Wile_E_Peyote · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not sure what I think about the article, but I sure hate the word virtualize. In fact I am sick of people adding "ize" to the end of words to make them verbs.

    Why do we keep coming up with new ways of saying the S.O.S.?

  2. Whose VM technology will Bill steal? by stankulp · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft steals OTHER PEOPLES' intellectual property as a business plan, but God forbid that anybody touch theirs.

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    We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become captive to a scientific-technological elite. - Eisenhower